DSC Resource Kit Release May 2019
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 14 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 87 pull requests have been merged and 36 issues have been closed, all thanks to...
View ArticleGet-ScriptDirectory to the Rescue
The other day I was writing a script and decided that I wanted to break it into a couple of files and have the main script dot-source a library script in the same directory. Here is the problem that I...
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Detecting LDAP based Kerberoasting with Azure ATP
In a typical Kerberoasting attack, attackers exploit LDAP vulnerabilities to generate a list of all user accounts with a Kerberos Service Principal Name (SPN) available. Once successful at listing...
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Software Update Dashboard by Collections
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View ArticleWe’re almost there! Join us at Windows Server Summit 2019
This blog post was authored by Dianna Marks, Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server Product Marketing. Windows Server Summit 2019 is just two days away and we already have over 8,500 registered to...
View ArticleWindows Server version 1903 now generally available
Last month, we gave everyone a detailed sneak peek into new capabilities we are releasing with Windows Server, version 1903. Today, we are excited to announce that this release is now generally...
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Simplified iOS device management with Microsoft’s Intune for Education
Microsoft Intune for Education continues to deliver new and exciting iOS management capabilities that make it easier than ever for IT administrators to manage classroom devices from one unified...
View ArticleInfrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News (May, 2019)
Hi there! Stanislav Belov here, and you are reading the next issue of the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News series! As a reminder, the Noteworthy News series covers various areas, to include...
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Discover Shadow IT across IaaS and PaaS with Microsoft’s CASB
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiated the decline of traditional data center strategies. Today, modern cloud-focused IT strategies enable organizations to implement new processes and scale their...
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Discover Shadow IT across IaaS and PaaS with Microsoft’s CASB
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiated the decline of traditional data center strategies. Today, modern cloud-focused IT strategies enable organizations to implement new processes and scale their...
View ArticlePowerShell 7 Road Map
Last month we announced that PowerShell 7 will be the next release of PowerShell. Here I will provide more details of areas we’ll be investing in for the PowerShell 7 release. When will I get it?!...
View ArticleUsing PowerShellGet with Azure Artifacts
We have improved the experience with PowerShell Get and private nuget feeds by focusing on pain points using an Azure Artifacts feed. We addressed pain points by enabling/documenting the following...
View Article25 reasons to choose Azure Stack HCI
This blog post was authored by Dianna Marks, Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server Marketing. At the Windows Server Summit in May, Cosmos Darwin and Greg Cusanza from the Windows Server team...
View ArticleAzure Policy Guest Configuration – Client
This post builds upon the introduction published earlier to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration client and how configuration content is...
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Azure Policy Guest Configuration – Service
This post builds upon the introduction published earlier to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration service. The full documentation for this...
View ArticleDSC Planning Update – June 2019
It has been almost a year since the last DSC Planning update. There has been a lot going on, many decisions being made, and it just didn’t make sense to post earlier in this calendar year. In this post...
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Microsoft Intune customer adoption pack is now available
We are excited to announce the updated Microsoft Intune Customer Adoption Pack is now available. It is a set of content and guidance that IT administrators, trainers, champions, and change management...
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How to Use an Additional Computer as a Secondary Display
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View ArticleRelease of PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.18.1
Overview PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.18.1 is now available on the PSGallery and fixes not only a lot of the issues reported for 1.18.0 but has also been made twice as faster compared to 1.18.0....
View ArticleCustomers get unmatched security with Windows Server and SQL Server workloads...
This blog post was authored by Arpan Shah, General Manager, Microsoft Azure.Customers such as Allscripts, Chevron, J.B. Hunt, and thousands of others are migrating their important workloads to Azure...
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